DIGITAL AGRICULTURE SUBTEAM

ABOUT THE DIGITAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT

The team is working towards creating an open-source rover and drone system, that uses a ML algorithm to identify northern leaf blight in maize crops. The first goal of this open-source project is to prove this method of aerial and ground based disease detection is feasible. Our next goal is to ensure we can share and replicate this system outside of the Cornell community, so that any farmer or researcher can build on our project. This semester we are building out a website to share our findings and algorithms with any interested party. We are also working on using cloud computing to train the ML algorithm, and finalizing the electrical components of the Rover. We hope to get it fully moving and operation by the end of the semester.

PROJECT TIMELINE

2019

FALL 2019

Education: Understanding convolutional neural networks and early stages of rover assembly.

FALL 2018

Analysis of initial surveying and community data. Continued outreach and research with the community.

2020

SPRING 2020

Begin Designing algorithms and plant disease recognition methods and rover assembly goes remote.

FALL 2020

continuation...

2021

SPRING 2021

continuation...

FALL 2021

Development: Create desktop app for rover-drone communication and rover electrical work and research rover automation

2022

SPRING 2022

Testing: Test rover and drone with manual rover movement and CNN visual recognition.

FALL 2022

Refinement: Continue testing system and add deep learning to drone and explore rover automation.

THE TEAM

Matt Sadowski
Subteam Co-Lead

Computer Science '25

Jessica Henson

Mechanical Enigneering '24

Juhi Shyamsukha

Computer Science '24